List of World Heritage Sites in the Arab States

This is a list of World Heritage Sites in the Arab States.^[1] Some of these countries are geographically located in Asia and some in Africa.

List

The list below contains an image of the site or part of the site; the name as inscribed by UNESCO; the location; the nominating state party; the criteria met by the site, including if it is a cultural, natural or mixed; the area in hectares and acres, excluding any buffer zones, with a value of zero implying that no data is published by UNESCO; the year the site was inscribed; and a description of the site.

  † In danger

Image	Site	Location	Criteria	Area (ha)	Area (acre)	Year	Description
	Al Qal'a of Beni Hammad	AlgeriaM'Sila Province,  Algeria	Cultural: (iii)	150	370	1980	[2]
	Djémila	AlgeriaSétif Province,  Algeria	Cultural: (iii)(iv)	31	77	1982	[3]
	Casbah of Algiers	AlgeriaAlgiers Province,  Algeria	Cultural: (ii)(v)	50	120	1982	[4]
	M'zab Valley	AlgeriaGhardaïa Province,  Algeria	Cultural: (ii)(iii)(v)	4,000	9,900	1982	[5]
	Tassili n'Ajjer	AlgeriaIllizi Province and Tamanrasset Province,  Algeria	Mixed: (i)(iii)(vii)(viii)	7,200,000	18,000,000	1982	[6]
	Timgad	AlgeriaBatna Province,  Algeria	Cultural: (ii)(iii)(iv)	91	220	1982	[7]
	Tipaza	AlgeriaTipaza Province,  Algeria	Cultural: (iii)(iv)	52	130	1982	[8]
	Qal'at al-Bahrain – Ancient Harbour and Capital of Dilmun	BahrainNorthern Governorate,  Bahrain	Cultural: (ii)(iii)(iv)	32	79	2005	[9]
	Bahrain Pearling Trail – Pearling, testimony of an island economy	BahrainMuharraq,  Bahrain	Cultural: (iii)	35,087	86,700	2012	[10][11]
	Abu Mena	EgyptAlexandria Governorate,  Egypt	Cultural: (iv)	183	450	1979	[12]
	Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis	EgyptLuxor Governorate,  Egypt	Cultural: (i)(iii)(vi)	7,390	18,300	1979	[13]
	Historic Cairo	EgyptCairo Governorate,  Egypt	Cultural: (i)(v)(vi)	524	1,290	1979	[14]
	Memphis and its Necropolis – the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur	EgyGiza Governorate,  Egypt	Cultural: (i)(iii)(vi)	16,359	40,420	1979	[15]
	Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae	EgyAswan Governorate,  Egypt	Cultural: (i)(iii)(vi)	374	920	1979	[16]
	Saint Catherine Area	EgySouth Sinai Governorate,  Egypt	Cultural: (i)(iii)(iv)(vi)	60,100	149,000	2002	[17]
	Wadi Al-Hitan (Whale Valley)	EgyFaiyum Governorate,  Egypt	Natural: (viii)	20,015	49,460	2005	[18]
	Erbil Citadel	IrqArbil Governorate,  Kurdistan,  Iraq	Cultural: (iv)	16	40	2014	[19]
	Ashur (Qal'at Sherqat)	IrqSalah ad Din Governorate,  Iraq	Cultural: (iii)(iv)	70	170	2003	[20]
	Hatra	IrqNinawa Governorate,  Iraq	Cultural: (ii)(iii)(iv)(vi)	324	800	1985	[21]
	Samarra Archaeological City	IrqSalah ad Din Governorate,  Iraq	Cultural: (ii)(iii)(iv)	15,058	37,210	1985	[22]
	Al-Maghtas (Baptism site)	Jordan River,  Jordan 31°50′13″N 35°32′50″E / 31.83694°N 35.54722°E	Cultural: (iii)(vi)	294 (730); buffer zone 957 (2,360)	2015		[23]
	Petra	JorMa'an Governorate,  Jordan	Cultural: (i)(iii)(iv)	—	—	1985	[24]
	Qasr Amra	JorZarqa Governorate,  Jordan	Cultural: (i)(iii)(iv)	—	—	1985	[25]
	Um er-Rasas (Kastrom Mefa'a)	JorMadaba Governorate,  Jordan	Cultural: (i)(iv)(vi)	24	59	2005	[26]
	Wadi Rum Protected Area	JorAqaba Governorate,  Jordan	Mixed: (iii)(v)(vii)	74,180	183,300	2005	[27]
	Anjar	LbnBeqaa Governorate,  Lebanon	Cultural: (iii)(iv)	—	—	1984	[28]
	Baalbek	LbnBeqaa Governorate,  Lebanon	Cultural: (i)(iv)	—	—	1984	[29]
	Byblos	LbnMount Lebanon Governorate,  Lebanon	Cultural: (iii)(iv)(vi)	—	—	1984	[30]
	Ouadi Qadisha (the Holy Valley) and the Forest of the Cedars of God (Horsh Arz el-Rab)	LbnNorth Lebanon Governorate,  Lebanon	Cultural: (iii)(iv)	—	—	1998	[31]
	Tyre	LbnSouth Lebanon Governorate,  Lebanon	Cultural: (iii)(vi)	154	380	1984	[32]
	Archaeological Site of Cyrene	LibJabal al Akhdar,  Libya	Cultural: (ii)(iii)(vi)	—	—	1982	[33]
	Archaeological Site of Leptis Magna	LibKhoms,  Libya	Cultural: (i)(ii)(iii)	—	—	1982	[34]
	Archaeological Site of Sabratha	LibZawiya District,  Libya	Cultural: (iii)	—	—	1982	A[35]
	Old Town of Ghadamès	LibNalut District,  Libya	Cultural: (v)	—	—	1986	[36]
	Rock-Art Sites of Tadrart Acacus	LibFezzan,  Libya	Cultural: (iii)	—	—	1985	[37]
	Ancient Ksour of Ouadane, Chinguetti, Tichitt and Oualata	MauritaniaOuadane, Chinguetti, Tichitt, and Oualata,  Mauritania	Cultural: (iii)(iv)(v)	—	—	1996	[38]
	Banc d'Arguin National Park	MauritaniaNouadhibou and Azefal,  Mauritania	Natural: (ix)(x)	1,200,000	3,000,000	1989	[39]
	Archaeological Site of Volubilis	MorFès-Meknès,  Morocco	Cultural: (ii)(iii)(iv)(vi)	42	100	1997	[40]
	Historic City of Meknes	MorFès-Meknès,  Morocco	Cultural: (iv)	—	—	1996	[41]
	Ksar of Ait-Ben-Haddou	MorDrâa-Tifalalet,  Morocco	Cultural: (iv)(v)	3	7.4	1987	[42]
	Medina of Essaouira (formerly Mogador)	MorMarrakesh-Safi,  Morocco	Cultural: (ii)(iv)	30	74	2001	[43]
	Medina of Fez	MorFez,  Morocco	Cultural: (ii)(v)	280	690	1981	[44]
	Medina of Marrakesh	MorMarrakesh-Safi,  Morocco	Cultural: (i)(ii)(iv)(v)	1,107	2,740	1985	[45]
	Medina of Tétouan (formerly known as Titawin)	MorTanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima,  Morocco	Cultural: (ii)(iv)(v)	7	17	1997	[46]
	Rabat, Modern Capital and Historic City: a Shared Heritage	Rabat,  Morocco	Cultural:(ii)(iv)	349		2012	[47]
	Portuguese City of Mazagan (El Jadida)	MorCasablanca-Settat,  Morocco	Cultural: (ii)(iv)	8	20	2004	[48]
	Aflaj Irrigation Systems of Oman	OmnSharqiyah and Batinah Regions,  Oman	Cultural: (v)	1,456	3,600	2006	[49]
	Archaeological Sites of Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn	OmnAd Dhahirah Region,  Oman	Cultural: (iii)(iv)	—	—	1988	[50]
	Bahla Fort	OmnAd Dakhiliyah Region,  Oman	Cultural: (iv)	—	—	1987	[51]
	Land of Frankincense	OmnDhofar Governorate,  Oman	Cultural: (iii)(iv)	850	2,100	2000	[52]
	The Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls	IrqJerusalem	Cultural: (ii)(iii)(vi)	—	—	1981	[53]
	Birthplace of Jesus: Church of the Nativity and the Pilgrimage Route, Bethlehem	SauBethlehem,  Palestine	Cultural: (ii)(iii)	2.98	7.4	2012
	Palestine: Land of Olives and Vines — Cultural Landscape of Southern Jerusalem, Battir	SauBattir,  Palestine	Cultural: (iv)(v)	349	860	2014
	Al Zubarah Archaeological Site	SauMadinat ash Shamal,  Qatar	Cultural: (iii)(iv)(v)	416	1,030	2013	[54]
	Al-Hijr Archaeological Site (Madâin Sâlih)	SauAl Madinah Province,  Saudi Arabia	Cultural: (ii)(iii)	1,621	4,010	2008	[55]
	At-Turaif District in ad-Dir'iyah	SauRiyadh Province,  Saudi Arabia	Cultural: (ii)(iii)	29	72	2008	[56]
	Al-Balad, Jeddah	SauMakkah Region,  Saudi Arabia	Cultural: (ii)(iv)(vi)	18	44	2014	[57]
	Rock Art in the Ha'il Region	SauHa'il Region,  Saudi Arabia	Cultural: (i)(iii)	2,044	5,050	2015	[58]
	Archaeological Sites of the Island of Meroe	SdnRiver Nile State,  Sudan	Cultural: (ii)(iii)(iv)(v)	2,357	5,820	2011	[59]
	Gebel Barkal and the Sites of the Napatan Region	SdnNorthern State,  Sudan	Cultural: (i)(ii)(iii)(iv)(vi)	183	450	2003	[60]
	Ancient City of Aleppo	SyrAleppo Governorate,  Syria	Cultural: (iii)(iv)	350	860	1986	[61]
	Ancient City of Bosra	SyrDaraa Governorate,  Syria	Cultural: (i)(iii)(vi)	—	—	1980	[62]
	Ancient City of Damascus	SyrDamascus Governorate,  Syria	Cultural: (i)(ii)(iii)(iv)(vi)	86	210	1979	[63]
	Ancient Villages of Northern Syria	Syr Syria	Cultural: (iii)(iv)(v)	12,290	30,400	2011	[64]
	Crac des Chevaliers and Qal'at Salah El-Din	SyrHoms and Latakia Governorates,  Syria	Cultural: (ii)(iv)	9	22	2006	[65]
	Site of Palmyra	SyrHoms Governorate,  Syria	Cultural: (i)(ii)(iv)	0.36	0.89	1980	[66]
	Archaeological Site of Carthage	TunTunis Governorate,  Tunisia	Cultural: (ii)(iii)(vi)	616	1,520	1979	[67]
	Dougga / Thugga	TunBeBéja Governorate,  Tunisia	Cultural: (ii)(iii)	70	170	1997	[68]
	Amphitheatre of El Jem	TunMahdia Governorate,  Tunisia	Cultural: (iv)(vi)	1.37	3.4	1979	[69]
	Ichkeul National Park	TunBiBizerte Governorate,  Tunisia	Natural: (x)	12,600	31,000	1980	[70]
	Kairouan	TunKairouan Governorate,  Tunisia	Cultural: (i)(ii)(iii)(v)(vi)	68	170	1988	[71]
	Medina of Sousse	TunSousse Governorate,  Tunisia	Cultural: (iii)(iv)(v)	32	79	1988	[72]
	Medina of Tunis	TunTunis Governorate,  Tunisia	Cultural: (ii)(iii)(v)	296	730	1979	[73]
	Punic Town of Kerkuane and its Necropolis	TunNabeul Governorate,  Tunisia	Cultural: (iii)	—	—	1985	[74]
	Cultural Sites of Al Ain (Hafit, Hili, Bidaa Bint Saud and Oases Areas)	Al Ain, Abu Dhabi,  United Arab Emirates	Cultural: (iii)(iv)(v)	4,945		2011	[75]
	Historic Town of Zabid	YemAl Hudaydah Governorate,  Yemen	Cultural: (iii)	—	—	1993	[76]
	Old City of Sana'a	YemSana'a Governorate,  Yemen	Cultural: (iv)(v)(vi)	—	—	1986	[77]
	Old Walled City of Shibam	YemHadhramaut Governorate,  Yemen	Cultural: (iii)(iv)(v)	—	—	1982	[78]
	Socotra Archipelago	YemHadhramaut Governorate,  Yemen	Natural: (x)	410,460	1,014,300	2008	[79]

See also

• List of World Heritage Sites in Africa
• List of World Heritage Sites in Western Asia
• Destruction of cultural heritage by ISIL

References

1. World Heritage Centre - World Heritage List
2. "Al Qal'a of Beni Hammad". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
3. "Djémila". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
4. "Kasbah of Algiers". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
5. "M'zab Valley". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
6. "Tassili n'Ajjer". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
7. "Timgad". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
8. "Tipaza". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
9. "Qal'at al-Bahrain – Ancient Harbour and Capital of Dilmun". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
10. "Pearl Diving in Bahrain". USAToday. Retrieved 1 July 2012.
11. "UNESCO World Heritage Site Profile". UNESCO. Retrieved 1 July 2012.
12. "Abu Mena". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
13. "Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
14. "Historic Cairo". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
15. "Memphis and its Necropolis – the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
16. "Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
17. "Saint Catherine Area". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
18. "Wadi Al-Hitan (Whale Valley)". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
19. "Erbil Citadel". UNESCO. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
20. "Ashur (Qal'at Sherqat)". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
21. "Hatra". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
22. "Samarra Archaeological City". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
23. "Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan" (Al-Maghtas)". UNESCO. Retrieved 6 Oct 2015.
24. "Petra". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
25. "Qasr Amra". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
26. "Um er-Rasas (Kastrom Mefa'a)". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
27. "Wadi Rum Protected Area". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
28. "Anjar". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
29. "Baalbek". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
30. "Baalbek". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
31. "Ouadi Qadisha (the Holy Valley) and the Forest of the Cedars of God (Horsh Arz el-Rab)". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
32. "Tyre". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
33. "Archaeological Site of Cyrene". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
34. "Archaeological Site of Leptis Magna". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
35. "Archaeological Site of Sabratha". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
36. "Old Town of Ghadamès". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
37. "Rock-Art Sites of Tadrart Acacus". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
38. "Ancient Ksour of Ouadane, Chinguetti, Tichitt and Oualata". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
39. "Banc d'Arguin National Park". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
40. "Archaeological Site of Volubilis". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
41. "Historic City of Meknes". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
42. "Ksar of Ait-Ben-Haddou". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
43. "Medina of Essaouira (formerly Mogador)". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
44. "Medina of Fez". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
45. "Medina of Marrakesh". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
46. "Medina of Tétouan (formerly known as Titawin)". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
47. Centre, UNESCO World Heritage. "Rabat, Modern Capital and Historic City: a Shared Heritage - UNESCO World Heritage Centre". whc.unesco.org. Retrieved 2016-02-06.
48. "Portuguese City of Mazagan (El Jadida)". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
49. "Aflaj Irrigation Systems of Oman". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
50. "Archaeological Sites of Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
51. "Bahla Fort". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
52. "Land of Frankincense". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
53. "Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
54. "Al Zubarah Archaeological Site". UNESCO. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
55. "Al-Hijr Archaeological Site (Madâin Sâlih)". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
56. "At-Turaif District in ad-Dir'iyah". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
57. "Historic Jeddah, the Gate to Makkah". UNESCO. Retrieved 12 October 2015.
58. "Rock Art in the Hail Region of Saudi Arabia". UNESCO. Retrieved 12 October 2015.
59. "Archaeological Sites of the Island of Meroe". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
60. "Gebel Barkal and the Sites of the Napatan Region". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
61. "Ancient City of Aleppo". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
62. "Ancient City of Bosra". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
63. "Ancient City of Damascus". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
64. "Ancient Villages of Northern Syria". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
65. "Crac des Chevaliers and Qal’at Salah El-Din". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
66. "Site of Palmyra". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
67. "Archaeological Site of Carthage". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
68. "Dougga / Thugga". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
69. "Amphitheatre of El Jem". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
70. "Ichkeul National Park". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
71. "Kairouan". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
72. "Medina of Sousse". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
73. "Medina of Tunis". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
74. "Punic Town of Kerkuane and its Necropolis". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
75. Centre, UNESCO World Heritage. "Cultural Sites of Al Ain (Hafit, Hili, Bidaa Bint Saud and Oases Areas) - UNESCO World Heritage Centre". whc.unesco.org. Retrieved 2016-02-06.
76. "Historic Town of Zabid". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
77. "Old City of Sana'a". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
78. "Old Walled City of Shibam". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
79. "Socotra Archipelago". UNESCO. Retrieved 17 August 2011.

External links

• UNESCO World Heritage Centre - Official site
• List of UNESCO World Heritage Sites - Official site
• VRheritage.org - documentation of World Heritage Sites
• Worldheritage-Forum - Information and Weblog on World Heritage Issues